{"id":13739,"date":"2026-04-14T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/13739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:21:39","slug":"inside-the-olivier-awards-with-cunard-londons-most-glamorous-night-of-theatre-was-a-fully-fledged-triumph-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/13739\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Olivier Awards with Cunard: London\u2019s most glamorous night of theatre was a fully-fledged triumph at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paddington Bear with the Cunard bell boys at the 2026 Olivier Awards where Paddington won 7 awards including \u2018Best New Musical\u2019<\/p>\n

Chris Ison<\/p>\n

The coveted Actress in a Musical went to Rachel Zegler, for her triumphant turn in Evita. (Dame Elaine Page, who originated the title role, was honoured last night with 2026 Special Award). The production, staged last summer, was unmissable. Three standing ovations broke out mid-performance during the press night, one instigated by Pablo Pascal and Sarah Paulson. Lord Lloyd Webber, Theo Fennell and Ben Whishaw were there, not to mention Keanu Reeves, Nita Ambani and Hayley Atwell \u2013 and everyone left with one resounding feeling: Rachel Zegler is a star and Jamie Lloyd is a genius. (Tatler returned the next day to interview set and costume designer Soutra Gilmour<\/a>). Theatre devotees who missed out on a ticket \u2013\u00a0and even those who had already seen it \u2013 hot-footed it to Argyll Street circa 9.15pm to catch Zegler as she emerged, blonde-wigged and Christian Dior-dressed, fully transformed into Eva Per\u00f3n, onto the balcony to perform \u2018Don\u2019t Cry for Me Argentina’. The crowds descended every night like it was a religious experience. Goose pimples, guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Away from Musical, the Best Actress award was scooped up by the deity that is Rosamund Pike<\/a>. Tatler caught the opening night of Suzie Miller\u2019s Inter Alia at the Wyndham\u2019s Theatre last Tuesday. To quote our own review<\/a>, Pike is a \u2018blinding elemental force to be reckoned with \u2013\u00a0a fully-cooked tornado of a mother, a judge, a wife.\u2019 You\u2019ve got to see it to believe it. Pike is constantly in motion, there\u2019s not a moment of respite. The subject matter is hard-hitting, yet she masterfully manages to weave in humour that doesn\u2019t land dead. Pike was jaw-dropping, and a deserved winner, beating the likes of Cate Blanchett in The Seagull, Julia McDermott in Weather Girl (another miracle of a one-woman performance, produced by Fleabag and Baby Reindeer super-producer \u2013 and former Tatler interviewee \u2013 Francesca Moody<\/a>) as well as Marianne Jean-Baptiste in All My Sons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddington Bear with the Cunard bell boys at the 2026 Olivier Awards where Paddington won 7 awards including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1416,27,6362,6363,6364],"class_list":{"0":"post-13739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-features","9":"tag-london","10":"tag-paywall-subscriber-only-content","11":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","12":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116402092937685691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}